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Silver punch mark coin of the Maurya empire, with symbols of wheel and elephant. 3rd century BCE. In the Maurya Empire, punch marks were widely used in the southern region of Nepal and also imported from hills and the Kathmandu valley. Mauryan coins were punch-marked with the royal standard to ascertain their authenticity.
Barmbrack (Irish: bairín breac [1]), also often shortened to brack, is a yeast bread with added sultanas and raisins. [2] The bread is associated with Halloween in Ireland , where an item (often a ring) is placed inside the bread, with the person receiving it considered to be fortunate.
Nepalese silver mohar in the name of King Bhupatindra Malla (ruled 1696-1722) of Bhadgaon (Bhaktapur), dated Nepal Era 816 ( = AD 1696), obverse. Silver mohars of this type were also exported to Tibet where they circulated along with other Malla mohars.
One rupee coin (2005) Two rupee coin (2006) One rupee coin (2009) In October 2007, a 500-rupee note was issued on which the king's portrait was replaced by Mount Everest. This reflects the historic change from a monarchy to a republic which took place in May 2008 in Nepal. Further notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 1000 rupees with Mount Everest ...
Nepal Lipi is available in Unicode as Newa script. It is the official script used to write Nepal Bhasa. Ranjana script has been proposed for encoding in Unicode. [30] The letter heads of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, [31] Lalitpur Metropolitan City, [32] Bhaktapur Municipality, [33] Madhyapur Thimi Municipality [34] ascribes its names in Ranjana ...
The Licchavis of Nepal (Nepali: लिच्छवि, also Lichchhavi, Lichavi) ruled over a kingdom in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal from approximately 450 to 750 CE. The Licchavi clan originated from a branch of the Licchavis of Vaishali who ruled in the territory of modern-day Bihar and who later conquered the Kathmandu Valley.
However, there prevail more than one saying on picking the origin of the names. Different places have picked names from different languages. The preference of language depends upon the native language of the place / region. Looking towards the ancient history of Nepal, Sanskrit has been the most important sources for deriving words in Nepali ...
Nepali Number System, also known as the Devanagari Number System, is used to represent numbers in Nepali language. It is a positional number system, which means that the value of a digit depends on its position within the number. The Nepali number system uses a script called Devanagari, which is also used for writing the Nepali language. [1]